n.
language
1) one's mother, native ~
organ of speech
speech
2) to use one's ~ ('to speak')
3) to hold one's ~ ('to be silent')
4) to find one's ~ ('to begin to speak')
5) to stick out one's ~ (the child stuck out its ~ at me)
6) to click one's ~
7) a coated ~
8) ( misc. ) a ~ depressor; on everyone's ~ ('discussed by everyone'); on the tip of one's ~ ('not quite recalled'); ~s were wagging ('people were gossiping'); to speak with a forked ~ ('to be deceitful')
manner of speaking
9) a caustic, foul, nasty, sharp; glib; loose ~ (he has a nasty ~)